Word: hraaa
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...changes--approved last year as a proposal called the Young Report--would make it more difficult for independently nominated candidates to win seats on the alumni-elected governing body. HRAAA members have fielded an opposition, pro-divestment slate each of the past five years, and said they would sue if the Young Report were implemented in this spring's election...
Frank Deale, a New York public interest attorney representing HRAAA, said Harvard lawyer Michael W. Roberts told him Tuesday that the University is reconsidering one of the Young Report's most controversial provisions: a clause requiring that a statement from Harvard's official nominating committee be included with all ballots...
...told them we were persuaded that that change was against the law and that we were considering suing," said HRAAA's executive director, Robert P. Wolff '54. "Roberts said he felt confident our concerns would be allayed by the information he would convey...
...Harvard promises in writing that the statement will not be mailed with the ballots. HRAAA will drop its plans to sue, Deale said...
...Four of HRAAA's pro-divestment candidates have won Board seats in recent years, including South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu. Critics have charged that the Young Report was an attempt to keep any others from being elected, while University officials have said they merely want to provide voters with better information about nominees...